Arvin is a somnolent rural town in Kern County surrounded by old oil pumps and endless agricultural fields. Its population is 21,000—92.7% Latino. It is home to hundreds—even thousands—of farmworkers [...] Continue Reading
Economy
A Victory for UC Lecturers: A New Contract
By Jane Hundertmark and David Bacon UC lecturers were ready on Nov. 18 to set up morning picket lines at the entrances to all nine UC campuses. At Berkeley, the strike lines normally go up first [...] Continue Reading
Housing Is Worth Going to Bat For
California hosts one of the greatest rivalries in sports: the L.A. Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants. This year, the rivalry reached a climax with the teams holding the best regular-season records [...] Continue Reading
$75 Million in the Bank and No Basic Services for the Unhoused
By Bob McCloskey On Oct. 14, at the regular Fresno City Council meeting, Council Member Miguel Arias said that the City of Fresno currently has $75 million in funds allocated for housing and [...] Continue Reading
Toxic Tsunami Headed for Fresno
By Kevin Hall Increased diesel exhaust in people’s lungs has a secure future in Fresno. Despite being the focal point of groundbreaking studies by Stanford and UC Berkeley concluded more than a [...] Continue Reading
Activist Scholarship: Against the Devil
By Daniel O’Connell The Devil’s Fruit: Farmworkers, Health and Environmental Justice by Dvera I. Saxton. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, Paperback, $34.95. Although many of us are [...] Continue Reading
A Case for Yes on Prop 15
By Daren A. Miller The times have really changed since 1978. Well, for most of us they have. I was a 12-year-old, exiting elementary school, headed for middle school. My previous summers had been [...] Continue Reading
14 Million U.S. Children Will Go Hungry This Week
By Sunita Sohrabji The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically heightened ongoing food insecurity: 14 million U.S. children will go hungry in any given week, and parents are increasingly skipping meals [...] Continue Reading
Support for ‘Millionaire’s Tax’ grows
Text and Photos by Peter Maiden Despite high heat and smoke from wildfires, drivers turned out for a Caravan to Commit to Equity Monday, August 24th. Around a dozen cars went from the Caltrain [...] Continue Reading
Tulare County During the Pandemic –The Hard Price of Poverty
A photo essay by David Bacon Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged last week that the coronavirus crisis is expanding far faster among eight rural counties in California’s Central Valley than in the [...] Continue Reading
The Community Alliance and the Boycott of Facebook Advertising
By Peter Maiden The #StopHateForProfit campaign is calling for a boycott of paid Facebook advertising. The boycott got underway in mid-June and will extend at least until the end of July. The [...] Continue Reading
World’s Immigration and Poverty under the Pandemic
By Eduardo Stanley The number of victims is soaring around the world because of Covid-19, with over 100,000 dead persons in the United States while President Trump is playing golf. He leads the [...] Continue Reading